Motivational Quotes

Fear

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

- Frances Moore Lappe

Best Quotes about Fear

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Baudrillard, Jean

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Johnson, Samuel

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Hoffer, Eric

Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Seneca

The best safety lies in fear.

Shakespeare, William

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

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Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead.

Johnson, John

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Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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A fighter has to know fear.

D'Amato, Cus

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There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Hitchcock, Alfred

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Michael Pritchard

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius, Lucius C.

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A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.

Wrigley Jr., William

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Dyson, Freeman

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Fears are nothing more than states of mind.

Hill, Napoleon

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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Kafka, Franz

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He who knows self as the enjoyer of the honey from the flowers of the senses, ever present within, ruler of time, goes beyond fear. For this self is supreme!

Upanishads, Veda

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.

Bryant, Jean

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Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Ferdinand Foch

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

42.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Patton, George S.

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Fear makes men believe the worst.

Rufus, Quintus Curtius

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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Buddha

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Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.

Shakespeare, William

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People die of fright and live of confidence.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

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I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?

Streisand, Barbara

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Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.

Lao-Tzu

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Fear is the sand in the machinery of life.

Jones, Eli Stanley